Living Room Theaters Boca Raton Needs Work, but It's Already the Best Movie Food Around

There's something that feels foreign about the lobby/restaurant at the new Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton. The sparse tables and chairs look straight from Ikea, and the minimalist touches feel like the designer used to work at Volvo. And it all works -- this is South Florida's new home for indie and foreign flicks after all.

The system for ordering at Florida Atlantic University's theater is also completely foreign, and here, unfortunately, it possesses no Swedish ingenuity. Next to the one-man

box office window is a restaurant cash register, where you may wait in

line to learn that it's just for ordering food in the theater.

If

you decide instead to sit in the restaurant, you'll be at the mercy of a

couple servers rarely patrolling the place. But if you go for eating in

the theaters instead -- and why wouldn't you? -- you'll be given a

number on a stick that you bring with you to your seat.

Inside,

the seats are the nicest around (take that, Muvico). Big leather

captain's chairs feature a console area on one side with a pair of

cupholders. It's stadium-style seats, so the views in the small theaters

are fantastic.

The food comes quickly. Only one person in our

theater waited into the previews. And it comes in style -- in lap-sized,